In the last few weeks I’ve met two London-based 30-somethings who not only love their food, but exude its flavours. Norwegian princess Signe Johansen, author of Scandilicious, looks like she spends her days consuming berries in the Norwegian mountains before doing 40 lengths of the local lake. While Wahaca’s Thomasina Miers has a tequila-downing, dance-till-dawn, Gap Yar quality that belies the responsibilites of her growing restaurant empire and heavily pregnant body.

Unlike some chefs, whose limp faces resemble the cloths they use to wipe their plates, these two ladies act as though the food they make bounces of the plate and into their hearts. Johansen’s intelligent and happy personality transmits a diet of sweet Norwegian cakes balanced with health-giving salads, while Miers’ comes across like a shot of tequila, rounded off with a bite of chilli.Did the food maketh the chefs? Perhaps. But either way, they are what they eat.